Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 815 Competition (Two in One)

Once the Lantern Festival is over, everything goes ahead.

In general, Fang Zhuo is quite satisfied with this year.

For Chinese New Year, I received a big red envelope from Pony, met happy relatives, made new progress on social platforms, and broke through the key progress of the ice core process. Except for the mobile phone, everything is going well.

On the morning of March 3, Fang Zhuo arrived at Hang Lung 5.

He sat in the office and took two sips of tea before he began to arrange for the silence of the ice core in the media field. The manuscript of "Semiconductor Technology" that had been published on the Internet was withdrawn from the official website and blog, and the flattering words that had not been published in this semi-monthly magazine were not used. On the page again.

In addition, the industry media and various mainstream media also invited people to say hello. The fabs in the three regions of Ice Core neither accept interviews nor need to make relevant reports.

It is impossible to hide the news of Ice Core’s completion of 65nm trial production and future related production capacity in the industry, but the public opinion level should be as low-key as possible, and don’t make such a big noise.

Compared with the high profile that social platforms and Yike mobile phones can have, it is better for Bingxin to do things quietly.

Fang Zhuo has such considerations, and the portal counterparts will be contacted by the Yike President's Office, and many long or short reports have also been reprinted by everyone.

Everything else is easy to say, but the penguin who just had a suspicion came to be noncommittal.

Fang Zhuo was aware of the antagonism between each other, so someone from the administration came forward to contact him, and Penguin would soon be cocoa.

Near noon, just as he was about to make a call to Silicon Valley, IDG President Xiong Xiaoge called in.

"Mr. Xiong, please tell me." Fang Zhuo was very polite.

"About the Weibo company's financing, what kind of regulations are there?" Xiong Xiaoge heard that Fang Boss was so polite, and he didn't know why, but always felt that he was pissing himself off.

"This is dominated by Sina. Wang Yan will deal with it after Weibo's activities this month are over." Fang Zhuo replied.

Weibo has arranged a lot of activities for March, which can be summed up as "welcome activities".

At present, Weibo Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sina, and it still uses the name "Sina Weibo" to attract traffic, but the domain name is weibo.com.

Xiong Xiaoge didn't want to listen to stereotypes in this call, and asked directly: "What is the scale of the first round of financing? I want to hear what you think."

Fang Zhuo said concisely: "All votes."

"Full vote?" Xiong Xiaoge hesitated for a few seconds.

"As long as you take what you get from Penguin, you can directly vote in the first round. You don't need to divide it into multiple rounds, and you don't need to pay more for the time being. It's all given by Penguin anyway." Fang Zhuo expressed his meaning calmly.

Xiong Xiaoge wants to invest, and this is the investment posture...

Fang Zhuo waited for three seconds, but he didn't hear Lao Xiong's voice, and continued: "To be honest, Lao Xiong, who called me from Goldman Sachs two days ago? He asked the financing officer earlier than you. I thought that Lao Xiong was the number one investor in the country, so I had to lead the conversation anyway.”

Xiong Xiaoge was not reluctant to vote, but just felt the signal of competition: "Mr. Fang, do you think Weibo still needs a lot of follow-up financing? Doesn't Penguin still have a dating website? Will it turn its guns around?"

"Whether it will or not, I don't know, but Zhang Chaoyang complained to me last week, saying that he had done a thing for the enemy." Fang Zhuo paused, "I said, Sina and Sohu are brothers, and they can have Healthy competition, I guess Sohu may look at the development of platforms like Weibo before deciding whether to enter the market.”

"What is the threshold for building such a social platform? Sohu can do it, and NetEase can do it too, just spend money."

"Obviously IDG came first and got in touch with such a project first. Do you want to regret it because you failed to invest a little less money in the future?"

"Old Xiong, let me put it this way, first make an outline of 15.5 billion, and whether you can succeed in the future depends on whether you have the courage."

Competing in social networks is pretty darn expensive.

The time, resources, and funds for the initial launch are very critical, and it will be much better after such a period of time.

This is what Fang Zhuo said years ago, "Seize the time window, increase resources, and spend a lot of money."

It's not just talking casually, it's really going to be done.

Xiong Xiaoge once again clearly felt Mr. Fang's determination: "Mr. Fang, the richest man in the mainland, can give me the determination, so that when I talk about investment with IDG partners, I will tell them exactly what you said. .”

"The richest man in the mainland is always supported by his friends. Without the support of the number one investor in the country, I wouldn't be where I am today." Fang Zhuo laughed.

"At the end of this month, I will meet and chat with Wang Yan again." Xiong Xiaoge finally said.

Fang Zhuo had no choice but to do this matter by Wang Yan.

He ended the call with Lao Xiong, thought for a while, and called Wang Fengyi, who was also a candidate for the number one investor in the country.

Such calls are much simpler.

"Brother Wang, at the end of the month and the beginning of the month, Weibo raises funds."

Wang Fengyi asked: "How to vote?"

Fang Zhuo still had the same opinion: "All votes."

Wang Fengyi simply replied: "Okay."

Fang Zhuo just wanted to say a few words of greeting before hanging up the phone, when the other party suddenly hesitated.

"Wait, Mr. Fang." Wang Fengyi said hesitantly.

Fang Zhuo was surprised: "Brother Wang, tell me."

"The money will be invested after Shenxin Kechuang finishes its performance report for the first quarter, won't there be any delay?" Wang Fengyi asked.

Fang Zhuo also agreed: "Okay."

In this way, the general situation of Weibo's first round of financing is basically finalized.

In fact, these days, there are other investment friends who also called to inquire about financing after Weibo went online, but these three companies have cooperated for a long time, and only the B round will decide whether to introduce new investors according to the situation.

I wanted to have lunch with Su Wei on the 22nd floor, but the executive meeting downstairs was delayed, so Fang Zhuo had to use a few semiconductor documents for dinner.

Before the meal was finished, Zheng Yingfeng, who was contacted by the electronics department last time, called again.

Zheng Yingfeng only gave a short notice last time, but this time he had a more detailed and even tedious discussion. The topic was one - what does the ice core need?
This position doesn't talk about policies, industries, and international competition, but just asks if there are any needs that can be implemented concretely.

For example, after the 65nm production capacity is formed, which domestic fields can place orders.

For example, can the colleges and universities that Bingxin cooperates with be more vigorous.

Zheng Yingfeng was very serious, and he didn't even hide it too much, saying that there was enough room for the price.

In fact, Fang Zhuo has no worries about the capacity filling of ice cores. 65nm will be a first-line process this year and next year, and buyers are relatively easy to find. Moreover, the important reason why the 90nm process was skipped at the beginning is that the cost of 65nm is almost the same as that of 90nm. It can also form a price advantage as the yield rate increases.

That is to say, even if it is difficult to compete with Taiwan Kee and UMC's mature 65nm, it can backhandedly take the share of other manufacturers' 90nm.

Process is justice!

The conversation lasted for a long time. Zheng Yingfeng had a good impression of Mr. Fang who was able to deal with all kinds of situations at his fingertips. Fang Zhuo also felt that this small leader of the Electronics Department had a very down-to-earth style of work.

Before Fang Zhuo went to the United States, he would go to the capital to report to the leader face to face, so he made an appointment with Zheng Yingfeng to talk further about the actual needs of Bingxin.

At that time, let's look at the situation and see if the friendship of gentlemen can be regarded as a brother.

In the end, before hanging up the phone, Zheng Yingfeng revealed a piece of news. In addition to supporting enterprises, the current research is also focusing on the positioning and consideration of the city. Everyone hopes that Bingxin can continue to work hard.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Su Wei, who had a quick lunch, went upstairs to visit Boss Fang.

"Mr. Fang, we plan to launch a storage center in the first half of the year to open up the connection to the southwest." Su Wei mentioned the content of today's meeting.

Fang Zhuo praised: "It's a good thing, Mr. Su has worked hard, and he deserves to be the president of the number one e-commerce company in China."

Su Wei smiled: "President Fang likes to praise people more and more now, and Sun Tongyu definitely can't agree with this title."

"Taobao's development is really good." Fang Zhuo did not hesitate to praise his competitors, "It really stimulated the vitality of sellers and buyers."

"We also discussed a sensitive topic today, whether e-buy is looking for opportunities to enter C2C." Su Wei became serious, and any e-commerce practitioner can see the prosperity of Taobao.

Fang Zhuo didn't hesitate when he heard this, and said with a smile: "C2C can be kept in mind for the time being, let's kill all the opponents in B2C first. If I get involved in C2C in the future, I hope to try it under the premise of having enough traffic."

Dangdang in B2C is trying to catch up, but it may take a lot of effort to catch up, but the momentum is much stronger than before.

Joyo and Amazon Huaxia have been integrated for a long time. After the Spring Festival this year, it finally became "Joyo Amazon". The follow-up actions are worth watching.

There are also offline rivals such as Suning and Gome, which are also ready to move.

But in general, e-buy has a pretty good competitive situation in the B2C track, and we can do a good job in this area before considering more competition in the direction.

Fang Zhuo and Su Wei discussed the situation of e-buy for a while, and then they swiped Weibo together again.

The trend of worshiping the top of the mountain on Weibo still has some wind, but more variants have appeared.

For example, "Fang Zhuo, I'm here, I want to marry you", "Mr. Fang, the house is sold, and the fund is bought", "Look at Mr. Fang from the friend website"...

Fang Zhuo didn't feel anything when he saw it, but Su Wei was very happy, and felt a little bit of the joy of socializing with strangers.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Wei still had to continue to deal with business.

"When are you going to the capital?" She knew that Fang Zhuo was going to fly directly to New York from the capital.

"The number 18 is tentatively set. I don't know if there will be any changes." Fang Zhuo replied, "The task on the phone side is very heavy."

Yike’s mobile phone needs to be watched by someone. Yu Hong, who returned to China for vacation, returned to New York on the fifth day of the lunar new year.

"Then I'm looking forward to watching Mr. Fang's press conference from the video in June." Su Wei said with a smile, "After the press conference, you give me two working mobile phones, and I want to try it with my own hands. It's worth Mr. Fang's What is the product that has been poured into it?"

Fang Zhuo let out a sigh of relief, and before he knew it, the press conference was only three months away.

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early March.

The holidays of Bingxin employees are gradually coming to an end, and everyone is moving towards the mass production goal again.

The newly launched Weibo has shown a good momentum of development, and the management team headed by Wang Xing extended its evil hand to the platform they are familiar with, which was strongly criticized by Penguin.

It's too bullying, you don't need a bottom line in Sina's work?

However, Wang Xing remained silent on this, but continued to implement the strategy firmly.

Fang Zhuo watched from the sidelines and didn't say anything. After all, public opinion didn't seem to show any sympathy for penguins.

On March [-]th, just as he was about to fly to the capital ahead of schedule, there was a sudden new movement in the industry.

Not Sina and Penguin, not Weibo and Dating.com, but Taobao and Paipai!
First of all, a seller found that his Taobao store had traffic and weight problems. After comparing with his peers and contacting Taobao, it was almost confirmed that it was the reason why he also opened a store on Paipai.com.

Immediately, this happened more and more.

After groping and summarizing, everyone found that this was not a random action by Taobao. Most of the people who encountered the situation were sellers whose Taobao stores were better managed than those of Paipai.com.

In other words, it is easy for such sellers to make a choice, and almost all of them will choose Taobao, which has more traffic and faster development.

Such means of competition caught the penguins off guard.

Because of the difference in size, Penguin first released moderate remarks-last year, we were doing eBay together, A Tao, have you forgotten?
The response from Taobao is very simple - last year I just swiped it alone, nothing to do with you.

Accompanied by the test of attitude, Taobao still unswervingly let the sellers make a choice, and the latter is not unexpected, some close Paipai.com stores, and some remove similar products from the shelves first.

Such a choice has not yet affected the kind of sellers who are doing well on both sides, but the situation is already obvious, and this scene will not be too far away.

Penguin escalated its response to public opinion and began to criticize competitors for their practices.

Taobao is not afraid at all, and even cited the previous example of the competition between Dating.com and Youyou.com, saying that Penguin should recognize commercial competition.

Later, some executives faced the media, still using this as an example, talking about the users of Friends.com moving to Weibo.

"The natural flow of users on different platforms is like the free flow of merchants and sellers from Paipai to Taobao."

"They recognize Taobao's prospects, it's as simple as that."

The competition between Taobao.com and Paipai.com has been overwhelming from the very beginning, and the latter is likely to be boiled as a frog in warm water and then die suddenly in the face of the loss of sellers.

Now, many people are speculating on Weibo, wondering if Paipai.com can last for a year like Friends.com.

When Fang Zhuo came to the capital and saw such a scene of competition, he felt that it was too pleasant. This Taobao Paipai always has a sense of sight that Penguin used the traffic advantage to attack other competitors before.

When Practitioners and Leziren focused on the two disputes in the field of e-commerce, the news from the United States made many Weibo netizens excited.

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Within a day, three US subprime mortgage companies declared bankruptcy.

The impact of the previous HSBC write-down of $108 billion in related assets appeared to be coming.

Before everyone @方常, another more shocking news came, New Century Financial Corporation, the second largest subprime mortgage loan company in the United States, announced that it would lay off more than 50% of its employees.

More news claims that the company is not far from filing for bankruptcy liquidation.

"Is this the impact? Is it the aftermath? Or is there a storm brewing?"

"I don't know why, but I suddenly became excited, @fangzhuo."

"Lehman, are you okay?"

(End of this chapter)